Bo Thompson

The bar is in hell. 🤣

I feel like we, the public, deserve to see how the AI groveled after being confronted with this mistake. They're all absurd, but there's something very schadenfreude around the whole exercise of watching grown folk who should know better try to reconcile with statistically derived apologies.

There's a particular kind of person who thinks they are better because they put away toys and other childish things, never once sparing a thought to the idea that the many toys and games they cherished as a child were lovingly crafted for them by adults who held onto childish things.

Children deserve third places. So do adults. These should rarely be the same place. If it requires adult supervision, it's not an exclusive third place for either. This means it is not unsuitable for un-kidded adults to be there. Kids still deserve their own third places. That's a different problem.

PC: I prayed to you in my time of need and I died feeling like nothing I could do mattered anyways!

God: People die every day. Death the promise at the end of every life. I answered your prayers with clarity. Sometimes that's just how a mortal life ends.

I see Ace Attorney on your list, have you tried Tyrian Cuthbert? I've been delighted to see other folks exploring that space with fun twists.

I want more judges to just start judiciously (you see that pun, right?) applying a Snitch-or-Sink response to federal civil servants giving unsatisfactory compliance to court orders. "Tell me who exactly failed to comply with my order. No? Then go to jail and they can send me someone who will."

Lemme get this straight: They can't afford the home for her to stay at, they can't make enough to be the sole breadwinner, and they can't repair or build shit without a YouTube guru and a home depot helper kit. Remind me in this lovely nuclear fantasy what these men think they're offering for this?

The best part? I imagine you could make a good case for dual sovereignty doctrine to allow states to file some charges too, making it possible to charge them with crimes against state AND federal government. This is important because if their immunity is invalidated, it'd block presidential pardon.

Oh, okay, then go to prison. Malfeasance, fraud by deception, embezzlement, a dash of contempt for having the temerity... the list is endless really. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, go directly to jail. 🤷🏿‍♂️

That's too cool!

In a surprise to nobody paying attention, Slay the Spire 2 has cemented itself as *the* rebuttal when people suggest there are no successful games made in Godot. Nearing half a million concurrent players and 97% approval rating; it's a certified hit by a known hitmaker.

Moltbook is easily one of the things I least look forward to explaining to students about the AI work of this time.

Yes, I think we are. I noticed that and definitely haven't failed to notice I neeeever see an artist's name attached in an art form where everyone skilled kinda knows each other.

It hurts recognizing all these words God did not write in the Bible, huh? 🤣

It is. It's Doakes giving him The Look.

We covered that in our last Zoom call. I scheduled a Microsoft Teams meeting to confirm it. You RVSPed via that Google Meetup we did. I attached a voice note with details to your OneNote report. We listened to it during our virtual scrum stum over Skype. You can get the minutes from our OneDrive.

(This is about Markwayne Mullin, a man whose name sounds like his family tree has a few loops.)

We live in such an unserious time. We watch news where a man--who hid for his life behind barricaded doors from men who looked like him--stands at a microphone and talks about how foreigners who he's never met are his real enemies. The men standing behind him? Idolize the ones who came to kill him.

That's the real danger nobody warns you about with slurs; the way they climb up out of a body on their own and then find their way into any unattended chat space.

I keep examining their stuff and thinking that whenever I stumble across it and I'm certain something is wrong with it or them... I'm sure eventually I'll figure it out.

I tell sad stories because I find sadness moves me more than joy. Even when the ending is happy, it often bears a bittersweet edge. I think life is full of sadness, and there is a value in making space for that without surrendering to it.

Alas, Poor Yorick! I knew his prescription.🤣

a man with a bald head is driving a car and looking at the camera Alt: a Black man with a bald head is driving a car and looking at the camera intently

There's a particular art asset source I keep seeing pop up that gives me really bad vibes. I dunno if it's AI (I don't see any visual signs), stolen art, or what... but something about them is off and I feel I just haven't made the connection yet.

The people I will never be offended about blocking me are prudish lil grammas. Listen, I get it. Some folks are here for kitty pictures, recipes, and Christmas photos. I'm none of those people hints. I get it, nana. Live your bestest life.

The White House needs to stop playing stupid games with Nintendo, because if there's one thing I know, it's that Nintendo has both the lawyers and the energy to make any IP infringement that hurts their kid-safe branding into a colossally bad idea. 🤣

Consider that even without optimizing anything, Steam makes ~60% profit margins... Meaning if they dropped their cut from 30% to 20%, they'd still be making billions but suddenly every $60 game would pay as well for devs as a $70 game does now.

The economics of games has never been "people aren't paying enough for games," it's instead "we've so hyperspecialized to make beautiful trailers and screenshots it takes absurd money to make otherwise mediocre games, and then almost all of it goes to everyone EXCEPT the creatives who make it."

Just for that, Pete is going to down another Baconator to change your mind. 🤣